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Guilt-ridden Noor has a terrible secret and longs for salvation by way of a pilgrimage to Mecca, where she believes prayers will be answered, "the spiritual and the mundane." Her wealthy daughter, ...

L to R: Jeunée Simon, Leda Rasooli, Fatemeh Mehraban, Nora el Samahy and Isabel Alamin appear in “Pilgrimage” produced by Golden Thread Productions and Z Space, onstage at Z Space in San Francisco.

Functions are the building blocks of Python programming. They let you organize your code, reduce repetition, and make your programs more readable and reusable. Whether you’re writing small scripts or ...

Functions are the building blocks of Python programs. They let you write reusable code, reduce duplication, and make projects easier to maintain. In this guide, we’ll walk through all the ways you can ...

There’s more than one way to thread (or not to thread) a Python program. We point you to several threading resources, a fast new static type checker from Astral, a monkey patch for Pandas that adds ...

At Bluesky, the social media start-up that has been adding 1 million users a day since X owner Elon Musk won his all-in bet on President-elect Donald Trump, the company’s 20 full-time employees have ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

Using the code in #105805 with the newly added test.test_threading.ThreadTests.test_finalize_daemon_thread_hang test enabled you can reproduce this thread sanitizer crash as follows (I used clang 18): ...

I have encountered a deadlock during subinterpreter shutdown after upgrading from Python 3.9.7 to 3.9.8. Git bisection reveals that #28589 ("Fix threading._shutdown() for the main thread (GH-28549)") ...